Alan Izod

[…]n Izod  6:30  Yes,recession was developing, developing fast, who said  that he couldn't see his way, obviously just putting us through public school and university. He couldn't afford that. And so he thought that the future didn't show a great deal of promise for us in Britain. And wh[…]

Clyde Jeavons

[…]st. That didn’t exist at the time – you learned on the job, but he said we were looking for someone with journalistic experience who could help us to publicise the work of the archive, which was something Lindgren was very, very, keen to do, to create public awareness of what we were doing, and help[…]

Johnny Speight

[…]ys, modern jazz and I thought it was just starting and found really it was just ending because it was a bit too far in front of the tone deaf British public. I found out later that Beecham thought the English were completely tone deaf, conf.r-rmed by turning the radio that they were the most unmusic[…]

Gerard "Gerry" Anthony Morrissey

[…] union official, but he worked in Creamery, and he was a member, an active rep for the Irish Transport and General Workers Union. And my mother was a publican, but during one of the many recessions we had in Ireland, pubs in villages didn't make a lot of money, so she effectively ended up a housewif[…]

Roy Fowler

[…]the same remit as, as your own organisation.  I’ve got a vague feeling that the objection on their part was that we were, that there was no public access.  Yes.  Or not sufficient public access. I think that was it but again please go to Roy.  Yes, yes. &[…]

Erwin Hillier

[…]wn in the So Western in Berlin for his Premier, it was sold out three months ahead, even before the critics even saw it, this was the strength of his public appeal and his quality as A man and creative artist, to have that module. There was no television, of course, opposition, so that made enormous[…]

Teddy Darvas

[…]- one generation went to the United States and the family name was Zahler and in Hollywood there are some Zahlers - one composed music for a lot of republic second features and his son is also - I have seen his credit - his son is also a composer. They have completely lost touch with that. And a lot[…]

Charles Potter

[…]was then living in kingford Essex. That was a trip, yeah, after three years of being put. Surround, I found myself transferred to the advertising and publicity department of the LMS railway.Unknown Speaker  5:13  And this is 1933 33Speaker 3  5:21  and my boss was a person called[…]

Denis Forman

[…]d athletics and cricket andall that which was okay because I was alright at those things but the staff was very poor quality, asit used to be in most public schools I think, they were sort of 'throw outs' rather like the EvelynWaugh picture of what schoolmasters were like, you know they were all a b[…]
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